Joseph Mallord William Turner

Ruins on a Hill

1831

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In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Berwick Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 59 × 96 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D25747
Turner Bequest CCLXV 58

Catalogue entry

These two sketches of ruins on a hill have not been identified. At the top of the page the ruins are seen from a distance, while at the right of the page, drawn with the book turned to the left, is a close-up view of one side of what is presumably the same structure.
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Thomas Ardill
May 2010

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